| | |  | Software Design, Testing & Engineering | Home » » » Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) | | | | | | | Description: | | - The new edition of the successful previous version is 25 percent revised and packed with more than 200 pages of new material on the 2008 release of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Renowned author Brian Knight and his expert coauthors show developers how to master the 2008 release of SSIS, which is both more powerful and more complex than ever
- Case studies and tutorial examples acquired over the three years since the previous edition will contribute to helping illustrate advanced concepts and techniques
- New chapters include coverage of data warehousing using SSIS, new methods for managing the SSIS platform, and improved techniques for ETL operations
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Brian Knight | | Paperback:
| 1008 pages | | Publisher:
| Wrox | | Publication Date:
| October 06, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0470247959 | | Product Length:
| 9.16 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.36 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.06 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.16 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.26 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Sql Server 2008 Integration Services is a Fantastic BookDec 05, 2008
By L. T. Blackford
If you have a need to learn SSIS or to enhance your SSIS knowledge base this is the book for you.
Being a Sql Server BI consultant I have come across many opportunities that SSIS either solves or is part of the overall solution.
Therefore I have a need to be as profecient as possible in SSIS. This book is my bible for SSIS reference and problem solving.
In my opinion there is not a better book available today, that will not only help get you started in SSIS, but enable you to become a very effecient SSIS Guru.
This book walks you through the entire SSIS solution process. Package creation, Control Flow, Data Flow, Warehouse population stratagies, package tuning, etc. (You get the picture)
One of the issues I come across routinely is data scrubbing, i.e cleaning your input data. This is a difficult task for even a skilled practitioner.
There is a very good chapter in this book on the scripting task in SSIS which is where most of your data cleansing will take place, if needed.
This book will save you hours if not days of research in trying to solve all those issues you typically encounter when taking data from one platform or store to another entirely different
Data store and/or platform.
Well worth the price!
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Great source of best practices for loading a data warehouseDec 05, 2008
By Keith Q. Hicks
I have recently been tasked to create a data warehouse for our company. I have many years of experience in the OLTP world but needed to get up to speed fast on how to get that data from a highly normalized transactional database into a data warehouse. Designing the data warehouse was straight forward but I needed best practices for the ETL (Extract, Tranform, Load) process to load and maintain the data warehouse.
I knew SSIS was the tool I needed to do the ETL but was not sure where to start. This is where this book has proved to be invaluable. Chapter 10 immediately gave me specific examples and best practices on how to load my data warehouse. After seeing the big picture, I was then able go back to the earlier chapters and learn the "heavy lifting" tasks such a creating the control and data flows.
I highly recommend this book to anyone involved in loading a data warehouse. The time you spend learning how to do it right way will definitely pay off in the end.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
SQL Server 2008 Integration Services - a must-haveDec 16, 2008
By Kimberly Talley
This book has been a great resource for me. I am in the process of building a data warehouse and have been struggling with this. I have a lot of experience on the OLTP side of systems, but this book really helped get me up to speed on the data warehouse concepts and the ETL process.
The examples in this book really opened my eyes to the 'outside the box' uses for SSIS that I had not thought of.
The chapter on data warehousing is a great resource and is a reference I keep close by. There is also a great chapter on error and event handling. This is a very important component to ETL systems, but one I wasn't handling very well.
This book is a great addition to my reference library. I highly recommend this to anyone involved in ETL processing.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 SpottyFeb 07, 2009
By Ron Davis
"USMC 67-71 OOHRAH!"
As I have grown to expect the WROX strategy of multiple authors has produced another mixed bag. I am sure they are all technically competent even expert but some do not communicate as well as others and it shows. Some of the chapters such as 10 on loading a Data Warehouse are excellent and some are poor or just a waste of paper.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An End to End reference for SSIS 2008Mar 29, 2010
By Rajkumar Ramasamy
"Rajkumar Ramasamy"
This book is a complete End to End reference guide for SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. This book starts with a very good basic introduction to the all the tools and tasks available in SSIS. There is very detailed explanation of the basic tasks which are more frequently used such as Script Task, Execute SQL task and Send Email. Good description on the containers which we need for looping through a set of tasks which is more common in any development.
During development, the most common thing we would like to /need to do is making the package dynamic. There is a good chapter to explain how to use expressions effectively to have runtime configurations in the package. Other very good chapters to refer are Scripting in SSIS which explains the scripting capabilities using .NET and C#. The chapter, Accessing Heterogeneous Data, which explains how to access various heterogeneous data sources such as Excel, Flat File, XML, ADO.NET, OLE DB and many with examples.
The later chapters explain more about optimizing SSIS packages, error handling and event handling, Migrating DTS Packages. The chapter which explains accessing external applications is good but needs more examples to highlight the capability of SSIS accessing various external applications.
Too many pages, yes, the book has. But to refer SSIS with good samples and Screenshots (The screenshots are helpful in few instances), I wouldn't mind reading these many pages.
For any new developer, who wants to know from the basics and a complete End to End flow of SSIS before start using SQL Server 2008 Integration for ETL development, this is one good reference book I would recommend.
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